As the wikipedia shows, there are lots of allegations and little evidence (not that evidence is easy to get from a largely closed region) No doubt there has been oppression and people killed in Tibet as in the rest of China, but I remain skeptical about the numbers. If combined with accusations of forced sterilizations and at the same time a large population increase it can’t possibly add upp.
People said that the European economies were too intertwined for a war to be possible before WW I too.
They were right.
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Citation please. 19th Century Imperialism and the scramble for territory in Africa and Asia made world war inevitable.
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Quite incorrect. A population increase due to colonization efforts is quite plausible. A new population moving in to fill the vacuum left by shrinking indigenous people. Such as the Soviet efforts to populate central Asia and the growth of Okinawa after WWII.
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And the Chinese government is known for moving large Han populations into the “provinces” to replace the locals.
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Here is one influential book from 1909 about the impossibility of war in Europe.
Tibetans have a special genetic adaptation to live at high altitude, so replacing them in Tibet is not trivial even if you wanted to. The only other people that have a similar adaptation live in the Andes. Wikipedia lists the demographics as 8% Han Chinese and 90% Tibetan.
You need to be able to take a person and develop them into someone can do a high stress desk job while sick and without sleeping for 2 days. That’s the minimum desk job dude. If they’re doing combat they need all that plus be physically stronger than most people they encounter and additionally have the mental fortitude to keep doing their job while sustaining injuries that should be treated in a hospital ER.
“Historian Niall Ferguson uses the receptiveness to the book of these paragons of the British military and naval establishments as evidence that it was not the pacifist work it superficially seemed to be, but instead a “Liberal imperialist tract directed at German opinion”, with the aim of discouraging Germany from continuing its bid to become a great naval power, a program which had begun the fierce, and expensive, naval arms race between the United Kingdom and Germany.”
-From your own citation
Tibet has high speed rail connections. It is far more connected to the rest of China than you are claiming.
I never claimed it wasn’t connected to the rest of China. There is a train from Beijing to Lhasa, but the Tanggula Pass is sort of a nightmare for some of the passengars, 5072 meter altitude is tough. I’ve been that high, but that was after many days of acclimation at lower altitude and when I was young and fit.
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